Reply #3: how about USIS and its Carlyle Group connections? [View All]

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along with a company Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ...


http://www.usis.com/
on the right-hand column under 'Investor Relations'

wonder what's in their database? wonder who has access??

"US Investigations Services calls itself the largest personnel security firm in the country. You've probably never heard of them. The company keeps a very low profile. Its headquarters is located in an underground bunker in a mountain in Butler County."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7053386/


"Formerly the Office of Federal Investigations, USIS is a fully private, commercial company with over 5,600 dedicated and highly trained full-time employees operating from more than 185 locations through out the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U. S. Virgin Islands."
http://www.intelligencecareers.com/careerfairs/index_careerevent.cfm?cfevid=58

Acxiom, whose website claims its database of information on 176 million Americans is the most comprehensive available, collects information from public records, private companies, the Postal Service and product warranty cards, said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61240,00.html


I suspect Accenture might be in the data-collection business, but not sure ... and, they're headquartered in Bermuda. Some Canadians have voiced concern w/Accenture: "Does the Accenture deal give the FBI access to our personal files". http://www.citizensforpublicpower.ca/articles/may04pluggedin.html

“The real advantage with RFID comes from how a company integrates and uses the data it is collecting. ...”Marco Ziegler, Accenture
http://www.clearorbit.com/files/COIntegratedRFIDSol.pdf

Someone posted a bunch of ChoicePoint info here:
"Choice Point is into all kinds of nasty sub rosa operations"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x331359#331831

According to an Accenture study on the differences between business and consumers perceptions about privacy and trust, businesses are collecting more information than ever before and they're not sure they should have it. For instance, 40 percent of companies surveyed collect consumers' birth dates, yet only 18 percent of those companies think they are entitled to that data. And while only 12 percent of businesses believe they are entitled to social security numbers, 34 percent surveyed collect them anyway.
http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=services%5Ctechnology%5Cvision%5Cprivacy_matters.xml

fwiw, I wrote my Senator complaining about our private identities being stolen every day by these companies ... and, now, how ironic, that stolen info has been stolen ... I say end it ASAP.